AFTER THE BOMBS — Relentless, wailing crust punk/heavy metal band from Montreal, Canada.

Favourite album: Relentless Onslaught

Black Boned Angel — Drone Metal band from Lower Hutt, New Zealand, named lifted from a Godflesh song. Lead Campbell Kneale went on to do a lot of other stuff.

Favourite album: Verdun

Black Dresses — Explicitly transgender industrial metal/noise pop duo from Toronto, Canada.

Favourite album: Peaceful as Hell

Blank Dogs — Synth-pop-y post-punk project from New York, USA. Reminiscent of Minimal Man (see below); similar lo-fi production and recurring mask motif. Coincidence? Probably.

Favourite album: Under And Under

Cabaret Voltaire — Dadaist industrial/EBM band from Sheffield, England. R.I.P. Richard H. Kirk.

Favourite album: The Crackdown

Chu Ishikawa — Industrial artist from Tokyo, Japan best known for scoring the Tetsuo films. R.I.P.

Favourite album: Tetsuo: The Iron Man OST

Coil — Prolific industrial and electronic musicians from London, England. Overarching themes of gay masculinity, occultism, and mental illness. R.I.P. Jhonn Balance, Peter Christopherson.

Favourite album: Black Antlers

dälek — Noisy, sample-heavy industrial hip-hop from Newark, USA.

Favourite album: From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots

Einstürzende Neubauten — Pioneering industrial group from West Berlin, FRG. Famous for their use of improvised instruments and power tools in their music.

Favourite album: Kollaps

Femtanyl — Gory trans jungle/breakcore soloist from Toronto, Canada. Mostly single-focused.

Favourite track: LOVESICK, CANNIBAL!

Four Hundred Years — Hybrid lefty emo rock/hardcore punk band, active from 1996-2001, born in Tuscon, mostly based out of Richmond, USA.

Favourite album: The New Imperialism

Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Post-rock group from Montreal, Canada, producing richly detailed musical soundscapes.

Favourite album: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

Heart Process — Industrial/noise metal from Prince George, Canada. Recorded one album, two singles, then vanished.

Favourite album: Car Crash

His Hero Is Gone — Acerbic, explicitly Anarchist crust punk from Memphis, USA. Disbanded in 1999, several members went on to form Tragedy.

Favourite album: Monuments to Thieves

Ho99o9 — Potent combination of hip-hop, punk rock, and industrial from Newark, USA.

Favourite album: Dead Bodies in the Lake

Justin K. Broadrick — Prolific industrial musician from Birmingham, England. Lead of Godflesh, Jesu, JK FLESH, Techno Animal, and more.

Favourite album: A World Lit Only By Fire

KMFDM — Sucks! Highly persistent electro-industrial rock/EBM band from Hamburg, Germany.

Favourite album: Nihil

Minimal Man — Experimental industrial/post punk project led by Patrick Miller in San Francisco, USA. R.I.P.

Favourite album: Slave Lullabyes

Missing Foundation — A militant anarchist industrial music/performance art project from New York, USA. Live shows frequently sparked riots.

Favourite album: Demise

Nine Inch Nails — Tightly produced, endlessly detailed, emotionally charged industrial rock/metal/pop/noise/ambience/soundtracks. My favourite band, bar none.

Favourite album: The Fragile

Nurse With Wound — Steven Stapleton's long-running outlet for particularly bizarre dadaist collage and dark ambient music. Began in London, England. Origin of the mildly infamous Nurse With Wound list.

Favourite album: Homotopy to Marie

Onra — Hip-hop/electro beatmaker out of Paris, France.

Favourite album: Chinoiseries

Pigface — Industrial rock supergroup led by Martin Atkins, formed initially in Chicago, USA.

Favourite album: A New High in Low

Pharmakon — Industrial/power electronics project by Margaret Chardiet, based in New York, USA.

Favourite album: Bestial Burden

Prefuse 73 — Sample-heavy trip-hop project by Guillermo Scott Herren, began life in New York, USA.

Favourite album: One Word Extinguisher

Re: — Electroacoustic noise/industrial collage. Please play as loud as possible.

Favourite album: Alms

Saul Williams — Prolific career as an experimental hip-hop soloist and collaborator, as well as an acclaimed poet, writer, actor, and director.

Favourite album: Martyr Loser King

Skinny Puppy — Extremely influential electro-industrial band from Vancouver, Canada. cEvin Key and Dwayne Goettel (R.I.P.) went on to form Download.

Favourite album: Last Rights

Skiploader — Emo rock band from Portland, USA. Only active for a few years.

Favourite album: From Can Through String

Steve Albini — Abrasive former edgelord behind Big Black, Shellac, and that other one. Based out of Chicago, USA. Wrote The Problem with Music, which is worth a read. R.I.P., asshole.

Favourite album: Atomizer

Street Sects — Sample-heavy punk rock with elements of industrial and power electronics music from Austin, USA.

Favourite album: End Position

Throbbing Gristle — The progenitors of industrial music. Sample-heavy, dark, surreal, and extreme. Born from COUM Transmissions in Kingston upon Hull, England. Some members went on to form Psychic TV. R.I.P. Genesis P-Orridge.

Favourite album: Heathen Earth

Trepaneringsritualen — Ritualistic industrial/dark ambient noise project by Thomas Martin Ekelund (fka Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words), began in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Favourite album: Veil The World

Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack — Gay, glitchy post-punk from Montreal, Canada.

Favourite album: Glow City

Wicked City — Stoner-y punk rock out of Melbourne, Australia.

Favourite album: Nothing Tastes the Way it Smells

Wound Interference — Gabber/industrial soloist from San Francisco, USA.

Favourite album: WOUND INTERFERENCE

XBXRX — Wild-ass no-wave/hardcore act from Mobile, USA.

Favourite album: Love Songs For The Blind